Okay, this was kinda amazing. The story presentation and style is where the game (and remedy always) excels at. The gameplay is the same as the first but it's slow paced to fit the survival horror vibe, the first game was more fun wrt gameplay but it didn't have that survival horror element to it, it was just goofy takens running towards you and you blasting them one by one. I kinda understand the idea of having this slow paced approach to the gameplay, enemies felt way more satisfying to kill as they were made to feel more terrifying, I used to lose my shit everytime I encountered a wolf in this game. Alan's part was kinda draggy, it felt like they wanted it to be shorter but at the same making it shorter would bring unwanted criticisms like people complaining about Saga having more playtime than the titular character. Alan's part peaked with the Herald of Darkness mission, after that it the theatre and hotel sequences didn't really match up to it. Saga's gameplay and story felt better imo but one complaint I have is naming one of the chapters as Scratch before the Scratch reveal and the ending chapters didn't have to be that long, now this where the game starts being a 'Walking Simulator' with hardly anything interesting going on, they could have made a neat cutscene or live action sequence instead. The art direction is just out of the world, and it was really expected from remedy after what I witnessed in the ashtray maze sequence from Control. The acting was great and RIP James McCaffrey, you nailed the role of playing both Alex Casey and Max Payne, can't imagine the Max Payne remakes without your majestic voice.
Talking about the performance on pc, I have to say the game's poorly optimised in the forest section despite the graphics looking that good, there were a lot of texture bugs, the same sort of issues I faced in control and the frame generation feature made the game clunky and unresponsive at some crucial parts of the game.
Overall the game is fantastic and is a massive improvement over the first game especially when it comes to story presentation, remedy really cooked with this like always. W studio imo has 0 Ls, worst case scenario; if they don't provide you a good story they back it up with a good gameplay and vice versa(Control and Quantum Break respectively). I need a Christopher Nolan Collab with remedy ASAP. Imagine the potential of a RemedyXNolan project.
Talking about the performance on pc, I have to say the game's poorly optimised in the forest section despite the graphics looking that good, there were a lot of texture bugs, the same sort of issues I faced in control and the frame generation feature made the game clunky and unresponsive at some crucial parts of the game.
Overall the game is fantastic and is a massive improvement over the first game especially when it comes to story presentation, remedy really cooked with this like always. W studio imo has 0 Ls, worst case scenario; if they don't provide you a good story they back it up with a good gameplay and vice versa(Control and Quantum Break respectively). I need a Christopher Nolan Collab with remedy ASAP. Imagine the potential of a RemedyXNolan project.